Wrong tool for the job

[McFrancis]

I was in Selfridges yesterday walking past the the men's perfume section and I saw this engine hoist being used to hold a sign up. I didn't catch the make/model of the hoist. 

 

Have any other readers got examples of using the wrong tool for the job?

 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

[Richard (OldStager)]

Topic title very apt there Dave.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

😁 

[Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup)]

I took this the other day.

What you can't see is that the ladders are already damaged.

The house is fully built using lime mortar and he is carrying out repairs using sand and cement. Doesn't have a clue.

This is a supposedly "bona fide" builder.

[Richard (OldStager)]

H and S would have a field day with that setup, geez. I once fell from a similar contraption as an apprentice, the electrician at the time sent me up to change a sodium lamp and the lot collapsed underneath me, he got a rollocking for making me do it from the boss.

[corsechris]

6 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said:

 

I’m struggling to think of any job that particular tool would be any use for.

[Steve (sdh2903)]

48 minutes ago, corsechris said:

 

I’m struggling to think of any job that particular tool would be any use for.

 

Starting world war 3?

[Blatman]

1 hour ago, corsechris said:

 

I’m struggling to think of any job that particular tool would be any use for.

 

Target practice?

 

To the memebrs of the CIA who may be reading this, we Brits call this humor (sic) and is not in any way a threat to 45.. Ironically the same number as the caibre of weapon that one might use for such activity...

[Richard (OldStager)]

13 minutes ago, Steve (sdh2903) said:

 

Starting world war 3?

Had the batteries not run out, that tool would most likely be very effective at this task.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

How about Christian Horner for the Diplomatic Service? 

[Rhett Turner - Black Country AO]

On 01/08/2021 at 14:33, McFrancis said:

I was in Selfridges yesterday walking past the the men's perfume section and I saw this engine hoist being used to hold a sign up. I didn't catch the make/model of the hoist. 

 

Have any other readers got examples of using the wrong tool for the job?

 

 

That could be an excellent plan instigated by some bright spark who conceived a way to get hold of a cheap engine crane. He may not of planned on it being purple but I think I'd live with that if the price was right.

[Lyonspride]

On 01/08/2021 at 14:41, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said:

Controversial, but meh...
Sometimes the tool is right for the first very small part of the job, clearing up the workspace, or as the Americans would put it "taking out the trash". But then it's time for a much more suitable tool..............

 

[Lyonspride]

On 01/08/2021 at 14:33, McFrancis said:

I was in Selfridges yesterday walking past the the men's perfume section and I saw this engine hoist being used to hold a sign up. I didn't catch the make/model of the hoist. 

 

Have any other readers got examples of using the wrong tool for the job?

 

I think this is an example of clever, but ill thought out marketing......... Most blokes wouldn't even know what that was.

[Richard (OldStager)]

2 minutes ago, Lyonspride said:

I think this is an example of clever, but ill thought out marketing......... Most blokes wouldn't even know what that was.

Yeah I do, its a what appears to a lit advertising display box, although what the purple thing that is fastened to it I don't know...